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No. 245,141'. Patented Aug. 2,1881.

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MAx--DANNHoRn QE'NUREMBERG, GERMANY.

TOY 0R SPINNING TOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,141, dated August 2, 1881.

' Application inea June 24,1881. (No moda.)

To all Awhom tt may concern Be it known that I, M-Ax D .1\11\IH0R1\I, of Nuremberg, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toys or Spinning Tops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in the combination, in atoy, of a rotary swivel case or shell, openat the top and having a longitudinal movable stem or spindle, a doll or image fitting therein and adapted to be impelled upward by a spring, so as to project above the swivel-case, and a catch which serves to hold the doll or image within the case or shell, and which is released by the movable spindle striking the ground, thus permitting the spring to elevate the doll or image above the case at the instant the spindle strikes the ground.

It also consistsin the combination, with thek aforesaid toy, of a novel device forrotatin g it, as hereinafter fully described.

.In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a side view of my improved toy;

Fig. 2 represents a central vertical sectionv thereof.V Figs. 3 and 4 represent, respectively, a plan and horizontal section of the device for rotating the toy. Fig. 5 represents a horizontal section on the dotted line :v x, Fig. 2. Fig. 6 represents a side view of the spindle of the toy'and other internal mechanism; and Fig. 7 represents a plan of a flange itting on the spindle, and hereinafter describedl Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the Iigures.

A designates an ornamental swivel case or shell, of sheet metal, having an open top and a central spindle, B, which has a. slight lon gitudinal movement therein.

C designates a doll or ima-ge, which may be c made of plastic material, or otherwise, and is formed upon a metallic sleeve, C', which is adapted to slide upon the spindle B, and the lower part of which is of enlarged diameter, so as tov contain a spindle-spring, a. The doll or image G is adapted to iit within the shell or case A, as seen in Fig. 2, and is capable of A designates a horizontal `plate extending across the plate or shell, and D designates a catch pivoted at c in said plate, and adapted to engage withV a collar or fla-nge, cl, on the spindle B. ln said collar or flange is a notch, d', into which the catch D tits; and in said catch is a notch, 12,-wiih which the edge of' the ilange or collar d engages with said notch. Inasmuch as the collar or ange d is fast on the spindle, and the catch with which it engages is secured in the case or shell, it will be understood that the two said parts will always turn together. The catch D is hooked at the upper end, so as to engage with a ange,f, upon the lower end of the sleeve, C', to hold the latter, with the doll or image, in its lowest position, as .seen in Fig. 2, and the catch is impelled forward to engage with the langef by a spring, f', acting` upon its back end. When the doll or image1() is pressed down into the case or shell the tlangef passes the nose of the catch D, and is held down by the catch engaging therewith; and when the toy is dropped onto the ground the spindle will be pressed upward, and the liange or collar d, acting upon the top ot" the notch cl2 in the catch D, will disengageV the upper hooked end of the catch from the flange f, and leave the doll or image free to be impelled upward by the spring a. Y

I will now describe the device which I employ for rotating the toy.

E designates a box o'r stock-piece, in which is fitted a pinion, g, the shank g of which extends through a hole in the top of said box and is riveted, leaving it free to rotate therein.

E designates a rackebar, which is free to be reciprocated through a hole or slot in the box or stock-piece E, and engages with the pinion g; and E2 designates a handle, to which the box or stock-piece E is secured, and which is made hollow to permit the bar E to be moved within it.

The upper end of the spindle B is screwthreaded, and is screwed into the hub of the pinion g.

In using my toy the rack-bar E is thrust into the box or stock-piece E, and the upper end of the spindle B is screwed into the pinion g. The rack-bar is then pulled quickly outward, and thus rotates the pinion g, and

with it the swivel case or shell and spindle, As soon as the rack-baris fully pulled out the pinion ceases to rotate; but the swivel case or shell and spindle continue to rotate through 5 their momentum until the spindleis unscrewed from the pinion g, whereupon the toy falls to the ground, and the spindle B is pressed upward by impact on the ground, thus releasing the doll or image and permitting it to be YIo impelled upward by the spring a.

said spindle, a spring for imparting an upward movement to said (loll or imago, and a catch for holding the latter within the case or shell and adapted to be released by the upward movement of said spindle, substantially 2 5 as specified.

2. The combination, with the toy comprising the swivel case or shell, the spindle provided at the top with a screw-thread, the doll or image, the spring, and the catch, of the ro 3o Y tating devicc comprising the stock-piece or box E, the pinion g, pivoted therein, the rackbar E', and the handle E2, substantially as specied.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name 35 to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses: MAX DANNHURN.

G. HEINRICH SCHMIDT, HEINRICH LUZINGER. 

